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In a ground breaking decision from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), Tri-State Generation and Transmission (Westminster, CO) who provides power to 44 rural electric cooperatives in 4 states, was denied a crucial Air Permit needed to begin construction on a 1400 MW facility 50 miles from Colorado in Holcomb Kansas to serve its Colorado customers.  The facility, once the largest planned coal facility west of the Mississippi, would have contributed over 10 million tons of global warming pollution into the air each year.

In a recorded message KDHE Secretary Roderick Bremby said, “I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing,”

Click here to watch Sec. Bremby’s speech:

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Brief Summary

Burning coal for power is an inherently polluting process, and releases mercury into the air. Coal plants have been cleaned up to a certain degree with the help of certain filters and scrubbers that reduce some pollutants, but the basic pollution problems with coal plants have not changed.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that causes developmental delays, decreased IQ and memory and attention deficits in children, and fertility, heart and neurological problems in adults. When a pregnant mother eats contaminated fish, mercury crosses the placenta to cause irreparable damage to the developing fetus's central nervous system. People get most of their mercury from eating fish. 

Environemnt Colorado is working to cut mercury pollution from power plants with the latest technologies to coal-fired power plants to slash their mercury pollution 90 percent.